Aguilar pleaded guilty to the offense in September. He admitted to leading a sheriff’s deputy on a high-speed chase in Kleberg County in May while unlawfully transporting 13 illegal aliens to Houston in a pickup truck.

The chase ended with Aguilar driving the truck into a field with barbed wire fences. That caused a 40-year-old man in the truck to suffer a severed leg and bleed to death.

Border patrol agents and local authorities later tracked down some of the illegal aliens who had fled into the brush.